At first glance I thought acapella was easy, it's everywhere recently! In TV shows like Glee and the recent film Pitch Perfect - which focuses solely on four competing acapella groups. The music produced by Glee's acapella show choir The Dalton Academy Warblers CD, 'Glee; The Music presents The Warblers', debuted at number 2 on the billboard 200 charts and reached number 2 on the iTunes Albums chart (iTunes. (2010). Glee: The Music presents The Warblers.) Pitch Perfect grossed $64,998,368 (USA) as of 8 February 2013 (IMDb (2012). Pitch Perfect) - acapella is cool!
This video perhaps isn't a great example as it's from a film and so has probably been edited, however it is clear to see that the main melody is created by the singers making the noises of the instruments.
Bearing in mind that the majority of CMU1a aren't trained singers and had never gave acapella a go, we were never going to achieve something of this calibre however, we gave it a good go. First we had to establish who's voice fitted where, Hayley played us simple chords on the piano and we matched pitch. Eventually we had Reece as Bass, Chloe and Donna as Tenors, Jess, Natalie and myself as Altos and Sophie and Hayley as the Sopranos.
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